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Re: ClimateGate - A Question for Ed Seedhouse and Paul Beckwith
Paul, I was just offering some alternatives. I am sorry if you thought I was rejecting your megaproject ideas. Quite the contrary, I am starting to like the ideas, but I am still concerned about the costs.
Cost is a legitimate concern (and I am not putting a price on human life), since there are other equally worthy projects that require resources simultaneously, like providing food and shelter to the billions we are trying to save. No sense in saving them from global warming if we can't feed them.
Not to mention teaching them chess;)
Another megaproject idea I heard was to cover large areas of the oceans with a tarp that would reflect sunlight back into space like the dwindling icecaps once did. What do you think?
Originally posted by Paul Bonham
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Expensive??? Bob, you just posted something about global warming affecting billions of lives. How expensive is too expensive for saving one life? two lives? four lives? eight lives?.... a couple of billion lives? 
I think a law for all NEW buildings is way too inadequate. Retrofit all existing buildings. Desperate times call for desperate measures......
Yes, megaprojects will cost money.......It's a matter of political will. I'm offering a possible solution, but "too expensive" isn't a good enough reason to throw it away in my opinion :).
I think a law for all NEW buildings is way too inadequate. Retrofit all existing buildings. Desperate times call for desperate measures......
Yes, megaprojects will cost money.......It's a matter of political will. I'm offering a possible solution, but "too expensive" isn't a good enough reason to throw it away in my opinion :).
Cost is a legitimate concern (and I am not putting a price on human life), since there are other equally worthy projects that require resources simultaneously, like providing food and shelter to the billions we are trying to save. No sense in saving them from global warming if we can't feed them.
Not to mention teaching them chess;)
Another megaproject idea I heard was to cover large areas of the oceans with a tarp that would reflect sunlight back into space like the dwindling icecaps once did. What do you think?
But then, I am not promoting such a silly idea. The ocean tarp idea is far less silly. Image the winter cover on a backyard pool.:) There would obviously be technical and environment problems to overcome. It would be expensive, no doubt. But please don't compare it to far sillier ideas.
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